Chuckie

This is Chuckie. I posted earlier about Grace and Whitney building a habitat for a tree frog. Grace named the frog Chuckie and since we took these photos, Chuckie now has a roommate named Buddy.

This is the habitat they created. Yes, it is peanut butter jars. We have them everywhere and use them for everything. Right, Mom? Anyway, after a bit of reading, we learned they like/need both water and earth. So, there is water and a sponge on one side. A tunnel connects the two sides. Dirt is on the other side. I think we need to drop some grass seed on the dirt side but we haven't yet. There are plenty of large air hole on the water side.

Grace catches moths to put in the jar to feed them.

I was pretty impressed with their habitat. It took an evening to build and a full day for the glue to dry. Gorilla Glue is an amazing thing. It expands as it dries filling the crack connecting the pipe to the jars. After it was dry it took an hour or so to scrape all the extra glue off. Now, for those of you that know Whitney, I am sure you cannot possible imagine him overdoing it by using WAY TOO MUCH glue, can you? That's what I thought. =)

Oh, and there are little "feet" made of pvc pipe so it doesn't roll around. This is Chuckie and Buddy's habitat not an amusement park ride!

This is how we catch moths. Now, I thought it might be easier to just catch them flying around the outside sights in the evening. I was sorely mistaken! This, another ingenious idea from the hubby, is Grace's moth catcher. It is a bucket with a flashlight in the bottom. And yes, that is a ziploc bag. And YES!!! The moths actually fly into the bag where they are promptly zipped up and taken to Chuckie and Buddy! How smart is that! Not on the moths part of course!

Anyway, we've had a good time with it. Grace is fervently keeping her room clean. She wants to bring Chuckie and Buddy into her room but we told her she has to keep her dresser and bookshelf cleaned off before something else comes in to sit on them. Saturday is the big day when she gets to bring them in off the porch. She's so excited!